250: Martyrdom of Fabian, bishop of Rome, during the persecution of Christians by Emperor Decius.
473: Death of Euthymius the Great in the Judean desert near Jerusalem. He was an abbot in Palestine and a hermit known for his holiness.
524: Bishop Simeon of Beth Ashram in Arabia, known as the Missionary to Persia, travels from the Lakhmid capital Hirta d Na`man and learns of several martyrdoms, especially of holy women.
1569: Death of the English translator Miles Coverdale in London, who produced the first complete printed English-language Bible.
1669: Birth of Susannah Annesley, known as “Mother of Methodism.” Born as the 25th child in her family, she got married to Samuel Wesley in 1689 and bore him 19 children, of which the last two are John (1703) and Charles (1707) Wesley.
1758: English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter to Molly Vazeille: ‘I cannot think of you, without thinking of God. Others often lead me to Him, as it were, going round about. You bring me straight into His presence.’
1773: Thomas Charles, who later became a leader of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, converts to Christianity while listening to Daniel Rowland preach.
1862: Death of the hymn-writer Harriet Auber at Hoddesdon in England, who had led a quiet and contented life, publishing only one volume, The Spirit of the Psalms. Many of her hymns appear in hymnbooks, especially the epiphany-hymn “Bright was the guiding star that led…”
1870: Clara Swain, an American physician and Christian missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church arrives at Bareilly, India, and begins medical mission work the same day.
1879: Birth of Albert S. Reitz, American Baptist evangelist and clergyman, who published over 100 hymns during his lifetime. Of these “Teach Me to Pray, Lord.” is the one best remembered today.
1895: Death of Johann Adam Ernst in South Euclid, Ohio, the early pioneer pastor of the Missouri Synod in Canada.
1918: Following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, all church property was confiscated and all religious instruction in the schools was abolished.
1942: German Nazi officials, decide on their “final solution,” which called for a massacre of all the Jews in Europe at the notorious Wannsee Conference in Berlin.
1952: Roman Catholic bishop Anton Vouk is ambushed, doused with gasoline in Yugoslavia, and set on fire, probably by government assassins. He manages to save his own life but has to suffer from the injuries till death.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil mcbs
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